WELCOME to Friday, December 9, 2011. How to look busy at work………
Generally, this will not be a concern until you are promoted to an executive position. But once you’ve created the illusion that you serve even the slightest purpose at your place of “business,” there’s no telling how far you’ll go. In the real working world, productivity is all a matter of appearances.
Appearance: You are furiously taking notes while conducting an important telephone marketing survey. Reality: You are pretending to take notes while talking to your friend who has called collect from Bulgaria.
Appearance: You are on the phone with a client in New York and you have said, “Yes sirree! That stock is about to shoot through the roof, now’s a great time to buy, I tell ya!” Reality: You are on the phone with a friend in Guam and you have said, “Yeah, this job is terrible, and my boss is such a pushy whining… Yes sirree! That stock is about to shoot through the roof, now’s a great time to buy, I tell ya!”
Appearance: You are at your computer writing a serious business memorandum to your department supervisior. Reality: You are at your computer telling dead-baby jokes to your e-mail correspondent in Namibia.
Appearance: You are urgently plugging numbers into a complicated spreadsheet. Reality: You are playing Angry Birds.
Appearance: You are tapping away on calculator keys, helping out the accounting department. Reality: You are paying your electric bill.
Appearance: You are reading the Software manual. Reality: You are reading the TV guide you placed in the Software manual.
Appearance: You are staring at an empty computer screen, absorbed in deep thought. Reality: You have pressed “Escape” just in time, erasing a MacDraw portrait entitled “Supervisor with Pitchfork Wound Clinging to a Cliff”
That’s my story and I’m sticking too it! Have a great Friday people and whatever you do, don’t forget to LAUGH IT UP! Peace I am outta here, Eucman!
QUOTES OF THE DAY….
If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat, if your house is on fire, then you got a problem. Everything else is inconvenience. ~Robert Fulghum
Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional. ~M. Kathleen Casey
If you’re going through hell, keep going. ~Winston Churchill
We have no right to ask when sorrow comes, “Why did this happen to me?” unless we ask the same question for every moment of happiness that comes our way. ~Author Unknown
A bend in the road is not the end of the road… unless you fail to make the turn. ~Author Unknown
The robbed that smiles, steals something from the thief. ~William Shakespeare, Othello
G U A R A N T E D T O M A K E Y O U L A F F….
Murphy applied for an engineering position at an Irish firm based in Dublin. An American applied for the same job and both applicants having the same qualifications were asked to take a test by the Department manager. Upon completion of the test both men only missed one of the questions. The manager went to Murphy and said. Manager: “Thank you for your interest, but we’ve decided to give the American the job” Murphy: “And why would you be doing that? We both got nine questions correct. This being Ireland and me being Irish I should get the job!” Manager: “We have made our decisions not on the correct answers, but on the question you missed.” Murphy: “And just how would one incorrect answer be better than the other?” Manager: “Simple, the American put down on question #5, “I don’t know.”, You put down “Neither do I.”
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Thursday’s Movie Trivia of the day! ‘How much movie trivia can you answer?What movie is this quote from??? Person 1: “Prison.” Person 2: “Albuquerque. See, I can do it, too. Snorkel.” Answer: National Treasure. This 2004 film is probably one of the more well-known movies in this quiz. It stars Nicolas Cage as Ben Gates, who is trying to find the greatest treasure known to man, along with the help of his assistant, Riley Poole (Justin Bartha). Abigail Chase (Diane Kruger), a National Archives archivist, joins in when Ian Howe (Sean Bean) attempts to steal the Declaration of Independence (of course, so does Ben). This quote is said by Shaw (David Dayan Fisher) (Person 1), one of Ian’s henchmen, as a seemingly random possible answer to the riddle posed on a meerschaum pipe found on a ship in the Arctic during the hunt for the treasure. Riley (Person 2) joins in with his own disconnected series of words, just to prove that he “can do it, too.”
Fridays Movie Trivia of the day! ‘How much movie trivia can you answer? What movie is this quote from?? “You went in there to get a date and came out with a dog? Oh, that’s bad even for you.”
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Thursday’s Crazy Song Definitions, this quiz features popular songs from 2008/2010, try and identify which song or which artist. “Nothing made sense till the time I saw your face…”Answer: Taylor Swift. The song from which the lyrics came from is “Today Was A Fairytale” which is what I am listening to right now.
Friday’s Crazy Song Definitions, This quiz features popular songs from 2009/2010, try and identify which song or which artist. “Right now he’s probably slow dancing with a beach blonde tramp and she’s probably getting frisky, Right now he’s probably buying her some fruity little drink cause she can’t take a whiskey…”?
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Sam the journalist has landed a job somewhere. The problem is, he doesn’t know where. All he knows is that it is in one of 6 cities lined up in a row in northern Canada: Eh Land, Hockeyville, Curling Town, Snowburg, New France, and Canada City. However his employer has left clues.
1. Curling Town is 2 cities away from the job’s location. 2. Hockeyville is 3 cities away from Snowburg. 3. Snowburg is on the right end. 4. New France is not the location. 5. Eh Land is 3 cities from Curling Town. 6. Canada City is 4 cities away from Snowburg. 7. Eh Land is next to the location and another place that isn’t the location. Sam is lazy, so he is paying you to find out where he is working.
Friday’s Quizzler is………..
1. My __________ are so talented that we are putting on a show. My extended family is so __________ that we have singers, dancers, a magician as well as a band.
2. As the crime scene was in the grove of __________, the __________ team was having a hard time collecting evidence.
3. My wife bought eight __________ at the fruit stand. As there is only seven in my family, she had a __________ one.
The World According to the Eucman! 